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I am a population geneticist interested in the mechanistic processes of Evolution and in establishing cross-disciplinary dialogues to understand the past. I work across a wide range of topics at the forefront of evolutionary genetics, including demographic inference, comparative genomics, conservation genetics and natural selection, using both modern and ancient DNA. I am particularly interested in the potential of genetic information to uncover hidden chapters in human evolution, the dynamics of domestication and the reconstruction of ancient ecosystems in Antarctica. I am deeply committed to interdisciplinary research and in combining genetics with other disciplines to establish new research paradigms and build holistic perspectives about Evolution. At present, I hold a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and a Discovery Project both funded by the Australian Research Council, which allow me to develop my research at the Australian National University. I am also an Integrated Researcher and currently serve as Deputy Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Carlos Aguiar Macedo Teixeira

Citation names

  • Teixeira, João
  • Teixeira, JC
  • João C. Teixeira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BE1B-2E3D-78D5
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6417-4702

Email addresses

  • joao.teixeira@anu.edu.au (Professional)
  • joao.teixeira@uc.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2016
Concluded
 Evolutionary Genetics | Supervisors: Svante Pääbo, Aida Andrés (Doctor of Philosophy)
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Germany
"Long-term balancing selection in the genomes of humans and other great apes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Magna Cum Laude
2011
Concluded
 Genética Forense | Supervisors: António Amorim, Luis Alvarez (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Phylogeographic analysis of maternal lineages in the Portuguese Jewish community" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024 - Current Invited Principal Investigator (Research) Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20), Portugal
2022 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) The Australian National University, Australia
2021 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) The University of Adelaide, Australia
2021 - 2024 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2018 - 2024 Visiting Researcher (Research) Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australia
2018 - 2021 Postdoc (Research) The University of Adelaide, Australia
2016 - 2017 Postdoc (Research) Institut Pasteur, France
2011 - 2016 Researcher (Research) Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Germany
2009 - 2011 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2008 - 2009 Research Trainee (Research) Ablynx NV, Belgium

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022 - Current Deputy Scientific Coordinator Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20), Portugal
2022 - Current Member of the Editorial Council Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20), Portugal
2008 - 2009 Pedagogic Council Student Representative Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/07/01 - 2025/12/28 Encounters with hominins: the history of human arrival in Sahul
DE210101235
Principal investigator
The Australian National University, Australia
 Australian Research Council
Ongoing
2016/05/02 - 2017/07/31 Comparative genomics of innate immunity in humans and non-human primates
LABEX IBEID
Post-doc Fellow
Institut Pasteur, France

Laboratoire d'Excellence Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases, France
Institut Pasteur
2012/01/01 - 2015/12/31 Long-term balancing selection in the genomes of humans and other great apes
SFRH/BD/77043/2011
PhD Student Fellow
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Germany
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2025 - Current The invisible past: Antarctic ecosystem evolution unlocked by ancient DNA
DP250100886
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Australian Research Council
Ongoing
2021/02/01 - 2024/11/30 The historical village of Idanha-a-Velha: city, territory and population in ancient times first century BC. - twelfth century AC
PTDC/HAR-ARQ/6273/2020
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/02/19 - 2021/02/18 Using genetics to reconstruct the peopling and diversification of Sahul
IN180100017
Post-doc
The University of Adelaide, Australia
 Australian Research Council
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Teixeira, JC. Corresponding author: Teixeira, JC. "Long-term balancing selection has maintained genetic variation across great ape species for millions of years". Paper presented in SMBE, 2023.
  2. Teixeira, João. "Balancing selection in the great apes". Paper presented in Cold Spring Harbour Biology of Genomes, 2015.
  3. Teixeira, JC. "Long-term balancing selection in LAD1 maintains a missense trans-species polymorphism in humans, chimpanzees and bonobos". Paper presented in SMBE 2014, 2014.
  4. Teixeira, JC. "Long-term balancing selection has influenced protein evolution in humans, chimpanzees and bonobos". Paper presented in SMBE 2013, 2013.
  5. Teixeira, JC. "Patterns of shared polymorphism in humans and apes". Paper presented in SMBE 2012, 2012.
  6. Teixeira, JC. "Phylogeographic analysis of maternal lineages in the NE Portuguese Jewish community". Paper presented in Portugaliae Genetica, 2011.
Journal article
  1. Gludhug A. Purnomo; Shimona Kealy; Sue O’Connor; Antoinette Schapper; Ben Shaw; Bastien Llamas; Joao C. Teixeira; Herawati Sudoyo; Raymond Tobler. "The genetic origins and impacts of historical Papuan migrations into Wallacea". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2412355121.
    10.1073/pnas.2412355121
  2. C. Teixeira, João. "Ancient DNA: a direct window into the human past". Antropologia Portuguesa 41 (2024): 297-312. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-7982_41_17.
    10.14195/2182-7982_41_17
  3. Singh, Prashasti; Teixeira, João C.; Bolch, Christopher; Armbrecht, Linda. "Marine sedimentary ancient DNA from Antarctic diatoms". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 640 (2024): 112090. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112090.
    10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112090
  4. MacRoberts, Rebecca Anne; Liberato, Marco; Roca-Rada, Xavier; Valente, Maria João; Relvado, Claudia; Matos Fernandes, Teresa; Barrocas Dias, Cristina; et al. "Shrouded in history: Unveiling the ways of life of an early Muslim population in Santarém, Portugal (8th– 10th century AD)". PLOS ONE 19 3 (2024): e0299958. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299958.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0299958
  5. Adam Benjamin Rohrlach; Maïté Rivollat; Patxuka de-Miguel-Ibáñez; Ulla Moilanen; Anne-Mari Liira; João C. Teixeira; Xavier Roca-Rada; et al. "Cases of trisomy 21 and trisomy 18 among historic and prehistoric individuals discovered from ancient DNA". Nature Communications (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45438-1.
    10.1038/s41467-024-45438-1
  6. Leonard Taufik; João C. Teixeira; Bastien Llamas; Herawati Sudoyo; Raymond Tobler; Gludhug A. Purnomo. "Human Genetic Research in Wallacea and Sahul: Recent Findings and Future Prospects". Genes (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13122373.
    10.3390/genes13122373
  7. Yassine Souilmi; Raymond Tobler; Angad Johar; Matthew Williams; Shane T. Grey; Joshua Schmidt; João C. Teixeira; et al. "Admixture has obscured signals of historical hard sweeps in humans". Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01914-9.
    10.1038/s41559-022-01914-9
  8. Collen, Evelyn Jane; Johar, Angad Singh; Teixeira, João C.; Llamas, Bastien. "The immunogenetic impact of European colonization in the Americas". Frontiers in Genetics 13 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.918227.
    10.3389/fgene.2022.918227
  9. Xavier Roca-Rada; Sofia Tereso; Adam B Rohrlach; André Brito; Matthew P Williams; Cláudia Umbelino; Francisco Curate; et al. Corresponding author: João C Teixeira. "A 1000-year-old case of Klinefelter's syndrome diagnosed by integrating morphology, osteology, and genetics". The Lancet 400 10353 (2022): 691-692. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(22)01476-3.
    Open access • 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)01476-3
  10. Teixeira, JC; Christian D. Huber. Corresponding author: Teixeira, JC. "Authors' Reply to Letter to the Editor: Neutral genetic diversity as a useful tool for conservation biology". Conservation Genetics 22 4 (2021): 547-549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-021-01385-8.
    10.1007/s10592-021-01385-8
  11. Gludhug Ariyo Purnomo; Kieren J Mitchell; Sue O'Connor; Shimona Kealy; Leonard Taufik; Sophie Schiller; Adam Rohrlach; et al. Corresponding author: João C. Teixeira. "Mitogenomes Reveal Two Major Influxes of Papuan Ancestry across Wallacea Following the Last Glacial Maximum and Austronesian Contact". Genes (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/7/965.
    10.3390/genes12070965
  12. Roca-Rada, Xavier; Politis, Gustavo; Messineo, Pablo G.; Scheifler, Nahuel; Scabuzzo, Clara; González, Mariela; Harkins, Kelly M.; et al. "Ancient mitochondrial genomes from the Argentinian Pampas inform the early peopling of the Southern Cone of South America". iScience 24 6 (2021): 102553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102553.
    10.1016/j.isci.2021.102553
  13. João C. Teixeira; Guy S. Jacobs; Chris Stringer; Jonathan Tuke; Georgi Hudjashov; Gludhug A. Purnomo; Herawati Sudoyo; et al. Corresponding author: João C. Teixeira. "Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture". Nature Ecology & Evolution (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01408-0.
    10.1038/s41559-021-01408-0
  14. João C. Teixeira; Christian D. Huber. Corresponding author: João C. Teixeira. "The inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015096118.
    10.1073/pnas.2015096118
  15. Roca-Rada, Xavier; Souilmi, Yassine; Teixeira, João C.; Llamas, Bastien. "Ancient DNA Studies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica". Genes 11 11 (2020): 1346. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes11111346.
    10.3390/genes11111346
  16. Barquera, Rodrigo; Collen, Evelyn; Di, Da; Buhler, Stéphane; Teixeira, João; Llamas, Bastien; Nunes, José M.; Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia. "Binding affinities of 438 HLA proteins to complete proteomes of seven pandemic viruses and distributions of strongest and weakest HLA peptide binders in populations worldwide". HLA 96 3 (2020): 277-298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tan.13956.
    10.1111/tan.13956
  17. Williams, Matthew; Teixeira, João. Corresponding author: Teixeira, João. "A genetic perspective on human origins". The Biochemist 42 1 (2020): 6-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio04201006.
    10.1042/bio04201006
  18. O’Neill, Mary B; Laval, Guillaume; Teixeira, João C; Palmenberg, Ann C; Pepperell, Caitlin S. "Genetic susceptibility to severe childhood asthma and rhinovirus-C maintained by balancing selection in humans for 150,000 years". Human Molecular Genetics 29 5 (2019): 736-744. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddz304.
    10.1093/hmg/ddz304
  19. João C. Teixeira; Alan Cooper. Corresponding author: João C. Teixeira. "Using hominin introgression to trace modern human dispersals". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 31 (2019): 15327-15332. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904824116.
    10.1073/pnas.1904824116
  20. Bitarello, Bárbara D; de Filippo, Cesare; Teixeira, João C; Schmidt, Joshua M; Kleinert, Philip; Meyer, Diogo; Andrés, Aida M. "Signatures of Long-Term Balancing Selection in Human Genomes". Genome Biology and Evolution 10 3 (2018): 939-955. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy054.
    10.1093/gbe/evy054
  21. Teixeira, João C.; de Filippo, Cesare; Weihmann, Antje; Meneu, Juan R.; Racimo, Fernando; Dannemann, Michael; Nickel, Birgit; et al. "Long-Term Balancing Selection in LAD1 Maintains a Missense Trans-Species Polymorphism in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Bonobos". Molecular Biology and Evolution 32 5 (2015): 1186-1196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv007.
    10.1093/molbev/msv007
  22. Nogueiro, Inês; Teixeira, João C.; Amorim, António; Gusmão, Leonor; Alvarez, Luis. "Portuguese crypto-Jews: the genetic heritage of a complex history". Frontiers in Genetics 6 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2015.00012.
    10.3389/fgene.2015.00012
  23. Key, Felix M; Teixeira, João C; de Filippo, Cesare; Andrés, Aida M. "Advantageous diversity maintained by balancing selection in humans". Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 29 (2014): 45-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2014.08.001.
    10.1016/j.gde.2014.08.001
  24. Nogueiro, Inês; Teixeira, João; Amorim, António; Gusmão, Leonor; Alvarez, Luis. "Reply to letter from Felice L. Bedford and Doron Yacobi". European Journal of Human Genetics 23 8 (2014): 994-995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2014.232.
    10.1038/ejhg.2014.232
  25. Nogueiro, Inês; Teixeira, João; Amorim, António; Gusmão, Leonor; Alvarez, Luis. "Echoes from Sepharad: signatures on the maternal gene pool of crypto-Jewish descendants". European Journal of Human Genetics 23 5 (2014): 693-699. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2014.140.
    10.1038/ejhg.2014.140
  26. Teixeira, J.C.; Nogueiro, I.; Goios, A.; Gusmão, L.; Amorim, A.; Alvarez, L.. Corresponding author: Teixeira, J.C.. "Mitochondrial DNA-control region sequence variation in the NE Portuguese Jewish community". Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series 3 1 (2011): e51-e52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigss.2011.08.025.
    10.1016/j.fsigss.2011.08.025
Magazine article
  1. Teixeira, JC. Corresponding author: Teixeira, JC. "Arqueogenética, a revolução no estudo do passado", National Geographic, 2023
  2. López Costas, Olalla; Teixeira, JC. "As histórias de vida gravadas nos ossos", National Geographic, 2023
  3. João C. Teixeira; Kristofer M. Helgen. Corresponding author: João C. Teixeira. "Evolutionary study suggests prehistoric human fossils 'hiding in plain sight' in Southeast Asia", The Conversation, 2021, https://theconversation.com/evolutionary-study-suggests-prehistoric-human-fossils-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-southeast-asia-157587.
  4. Teixeira, JC. Corresponding author: Teixeira, JC. "Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up", The Conversation, 2019, https://theconversation.com/southeast-asia-was-crowded-with-archaic-human-groups-long-before-we-turned-up-119818.
Preprint
  1. Gludhug A. Purnomo; João C. Teixeira; Herawati Sudoyo; Bastien Llamas; Raymond Tobler. "Benchmarking Imputed Low Coverage Genomes in a Human Population Genetics Context". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.02.597067.
    10.1101/2024.06.02.597067
  2. Roca-Rada, Xavier; Davidson, Roberta; Williams, Matthew P.; Ravishankar, Shyamsundar; Collen, Evelyn; Haarkötter, Christian; Taufik, Leonard; et al. "The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.12.612544.
    10.1101/2024.09.12.612544
  3. Davidson, Roberta; Roca-Rada, Xavier; Ravishankar, Shyamsundar; Taufik, Leonard; Haarkötter, Christian; Collen, Evelyn; Williams, Matthew; et al. "Optimised in-solution enrichment of over a million ancient human SNPs". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.16.594432.
    10.1101/2024.05.16.594432
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Teixeira, João. "Long-term balancing selection in the genomes of humans and other great apes". PhD, 2016. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-158592.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024 The invisible past: Antarctic ecosystem evolution unlocked by ancient DNA 2º Colóquio de Interdisciplinaridade
Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023 An interdisciplinary search for our origins Interdisciplining Knowledge: Humanities, Sciences and Culture
Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023 Understanding human history using modern and ancient genomes Synapse Seminar Series
Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative (Australia)
2023 Evolução e interdisciplinaridade: uma selecção natural Colóquio CEIS20 25 anos
Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2022 Neandertais, Denisovanos e Hobbits: migrações humanas até ao Restuarante no Fim do Universo XVII Biologia na Noite
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022 A 1,000-year-old case of Klinefelter syndrome Hot Topics: Ancient DNA - Genomics meets Archaeology
Portuguese Society of Genetics
2022 A 1,000-year-old case of Klinefelter syndrome
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
2021 Hominin admixture in Island Southeast Asia
University of Plymouth (United Kingdom)
2021 Hominin admixture in Island Southeast Asia
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
2021 Searching for our origins: genetics and human evolution
Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
2021 Integrating Ancient DNA to the study of the human past Early Medieval BioAnthropology
University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2021 Hominin admixture in Island Southeast Asia
University College London (United Kingdom)
2021 Hominin admixture in Island Southeast Asia
The Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB) (Portugal)
2021 Interdisciplinary Approaches and the Human Past: Ancient DNA and the Denisovans
Archaeological Museum (Zagreb, Croatia)
2020 Hominid Population Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany)
2020 Introgression, Hominin Dispersal and Megafaunal Survival in Late Pleistocene Island Southeast Asia CABAH Seminar Series
Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (Australia)
2019 Using DNA to reconstruct the history of Sahul International Conference on the History of Language
The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)
2019 Archaic introgression and the modern human colonization of Australia
Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology (Indonesia)
2018 The Aboriginal Heritage Project International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology
(Jena, Germany)
2016 Comparative genomics of innate immunity in human and non-human primates The Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics
(Vancouver, Canada)
2015 Long-term balancing selection in great apes II BioAnthropological Meeting – Life, Death and in Between
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015 Long-term balancing selection in great apes
Stanford University (United States)
2015 Long-term balancing selection in great apes
Institut Pasteur (France)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - 2024 Ancient DNA and the history of Portugal | Xavier Roca Rada
Supervisor
 Postdoctoral research (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2022 Human demographic insights from paleogenetic studies of American and Iberian skeletal remains | Student: Xavier Roca Rada
Co-supervisor
 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
The University of Adelaide, Australia
2018 - 2022 Post-contact evolutionary immunogenetics in Indigenous peoples of America | Student: Evelyn Jane Collen
Co-supervisor
 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
The University of Adelaide, Australia
2018 - 2022 Reconstructing the Population History of Wallacea and Sahul | Student: Gludhug Ariyo Purnomo
Co-supervisor
 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
The University of Adelaide, Australia
2020 - 2020 Inferring natural selection from genomic data | Student: Samuel Godwin
Supervisor
 Honours Degree (Other)
The University of Adelaide, Australia

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/03/21 - 2024/03/22 The 20th Portugaliae Genetica: DNA - Ancient and New https://www.i3s.up.pt/event.php?v=290 (2024/03/21 - 2024/03/22)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2015/02/25 - 2015/02/27 The Human Mutation Rate Meeting (THMR2015) https://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/conferences/thmr2015/index/ (2015/02/25 - 2015/02/27)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Germany

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2021/12/09 Genetic characterization of the maternal lineages in Andean Colombian populations.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Bibiana Patrícia Augusto Ribeiro (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2012 - Current Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/03/21 - 2024/03/22 The 20th Portugaliae Genetica: DNA - Ancient and New i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Ciência, Saúde e Sociedade (course coordinator) Estudos Contemporâneos (Doutoramento) Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20), Portugal
2023 - 2023 Métodos de Investigação em Antropologia I: "DNA and the study of the human past" Antropologia (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2023 Archaeogenetics (invited lecturer) Arqueologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2020 - 2022 Human Evolution (invited lecturer) (Bachelor) Flinders University, Australia
2016 - 2016 Population Genomics (invited lecturer) (Postgraduate Certificate) Institut Pasteur, France
2014 - 2016 Molecular Anthropology (invited lecturer) (Bachelor) Universität Leipzig, Germany
2015 - 2015 Human Evolution (invited lecturer) Biologia (Bachelor) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/06/01 O Esqueleto de Castro de Avelãs National Geographic Magazine
2023/05/04 Ancient human DNA extracted from 20,000-year-old deer tooth pendant found in Denisova Cave https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-05-04/human-dna-extracted-deer-tooth-pendant-denisova-cave-genome/102280324 Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
2023/02/01 Interview Super Interessante Magazine
2022/10/22 Interview https://sol.sapo.pt/2022/10/09/se-ha-pessoa-que-merece-este-premio-e-o-svante/ Jornal O Nascer do Sol
2022/08/30 Esqueleto com mil anos ajuda equipa de português em investigação de doença rara Jornal i
2022/08/30 DNA from medieval skeleton reveals XXY chromosome condition, Klinefelter syndrome https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-30/dna-medieval-skeleton-genetic-condition-trisomy-klinefelter/101376444 Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
2021/11/01 Interview Super Interessante Magazine
2021/08/21 New clue to human evolution's biggest mystery emerges in Philippines https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/16/world/denisovan-dna-philippines-scn/index.html?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR1ulrSr5eC4BlGH5zKP28dDYxvITlw_qCVQeFRBGSG0tq3HWFYOIF2as6U CNN
2021/06/01 O Milénio de Idanha-a-Velha National Geographic Magazine
2021/03/23 Tightening the dragnet on Denisovans https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/tightening-the-dragnet-on-denisovans/ Cosmos Magazine
2019/01/19 Neanderthals and Denisovans lived in same Siberian cave for 100,000 years https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-01-31/denisovans-neanderthals-siberian-cave-hominin-human-archaeology/10751116 Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/05/05 - Current YouTube Documentary "Where are all the Denisovans?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNusMHoSdss Human Evolution
2022/10/27 - Current YouTube Documentary "The crossroads of human evolution (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKUKoLdWdPQ&t=10s Human Evolution
2022/08/29 - Current Interview TSF https://www.tsf.pt/portugal/sociedade/cientistas-identificam-cromossoma-extra-em-homem-que-viveu-ha-mil-anos-em-braganca-15123177.html/ Ancient disease
2021/10/11 - Current Interview The World | NPR https://theworld.org/media/2021-10-11/golden-age-discovering-new-species-humans Human Evolution
2021/04 - Current Podcast Parsing Science | DNA Evidence of Denisovan Interbreeding https://www.parsingscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ParsingScience098-Teixeira.mp3 Human Evolution

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Quaternary International Elsevier
2022 - Current Nature Ecology and Evolution Springer Nature
2022 - Current Genome Biology and Evolution Oxford University Press
2021 - Current Molecular Biology and Evolution Oxford University Press
Distinctions

Award

2021 School of Biological Sciences Publication Excellence Award Winner
The University of Adelaide, Australia
2017 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research (semi-finalist)
American Society of Human Genetics, United States
2013 Graduate Student Award
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, United States
2009 Prémio Escolar Doutor António Leitão
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal